Given the trainwreck my life has become, I’ve earned my cynical attitude. I’m trapped in a dead-end job at the Bear Butte County Sheriff’s Office—a position I took out of desperation after the brutal murder of my Lakota half-brother. Three years have passed, his case is cold, and my coping mechanisms—tequila, cigarettes and dubious men—no longer serve as excuses for my grief; they define who I am.

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The hero of Jeffery Deaver’s thriller The Bone Collector is Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic scientist known to his peers as „the world’s foremost criminalist“. Rhyme will need all his reason–and his considerable stock of high-tech tools–about him to solve this latest brain-twister: a serial killer with method to his madness. In tried and true thriller fashion, the killer’s crimes are described in lurid detail, as is the astounding technological equipment with which Rhyme examines the evidence–everything from an energy-dispersive x-ray unit to a mass spectrometer.

Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer’s fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing, or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports, and subways.

Band 2 der Reihe. “Breathtaking. One scare after another and hard to figure out what will come next. I like that the detective is physically challenged which made it different and not as predictable as usual detective stories.” (Leserin) (440 Rezensionen / 4,5 Sterne), 452 Seiten noch günstig?

Rhyme travels to North Carolina to undergo an experimental surgical procedure and is, a jot too coincidentally, met at the door by a local sheriff, the cousin of an NYPD colleague, bearing one murder, two kidnappings, and a timely plea for help. It seems that 16-year-old Garrett Hanlon, a bug-obsessed orphan known locally as the Insect Boy, has kidnapped and probably raped two women, and bludgeoned to death a would-be hero who tried to stop one of the abductions.

Band 3 der Reihe. “Deaver does it again. He’s such an excellent mystery writer with true to life characters & a well conceived plot & ending.The main characters Lincoln Rhymes & Amanda keep the story fueled from beginning to end which he’s done with his other mysteries.” (Leser) (542 Rezensionen / 4,4 Sterne), 516 Seiten noch günstig?

Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli, a.k.a. the Padre, is furious when fanatical terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with diplomatic caution that prolongs their captivity, the Padre and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House to hold the President and his wife hostage. Now the Padre calls the shots on getting the President to take steps to release his family. But will his plan go as expected?

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It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce’s cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel’s doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more. Only the Colonel’s daughter, the precocious Flavia -when she’s not plotting elaborate revenges against her nasty older sisters in her basement chemical laboratory, that is – has the ingenuity to follow the clues that reveal the victim’s identity, and a conspiracy that reached back into the de Luce family’s murky past.

Als vor Jahren die ersten Flavia de Luce Krimis von Alan Bradley herausgekommen sind, haben viele Buchhandlungen sie ins Kinderbuchregal geschoben, weil die Heldin ein kleines Mädchen ist. Aber nein, das sind ausgewachsene, hintergründige und sehr ungewöhnliche Krimis! Persönlicher Tipp von mir. “I’m a little surprised that a man, Bradley, can capture so well how a girl thinks – and still make the story so readable for a grow up. Flavia is clever, she is brave, she is confused, she is mean, she is kind, she is sooooo funny, smart (maybe she’s unrealistically smart), she yearns for a hug and warmth from her family. I love imagining her flying over the countryside on her bicycle, Gladys.” (Leserin) (1.055 Rezensionen / 4,3 Sterne), 306 Seiten noch günstig?

The Glass Gargoyle Fantasy von Marie Andreas
Die Archäologin Taryn St. Giles hat ihr Leben damit verbracht, in den Ruinen der Elfen zu graben, die aus den Vier Königreichen vor tausend Jahren verschwunden sind. Aber als ihre Förderer auch anfangen zu verschwinden – und dann tot aufzutauchen – findet sie sich arbeitslos, ruhelos und verzweifelt. „This story was a hoot! Ms. Andreas created a fantastic world with a mix of characters that are not only not-human (or at least not fully), but a wide range of personalities. I cracked up from the start. There were many lines that had me laughing out loud, which then made me explain myself to my co-workers as to why I was disturbing the peace.“ (Rezensentin) (50 Rezensionen / 4,5 Sterne), 346 Seiten – noch gratis?